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The Invention of Science : a New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Invention of Science : a New History of the Scientific Revolution about?
"Captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in." — Financial Times A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts —a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world. We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently, but came to intersect and create a new worldview. Here are the brilliant iconoclasts—Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and many more curious minds fr
Who reads The Invention of Science : a New History of the Scientific Revolution?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Wootton
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141916774
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (328 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14